Sonia Birate, University of VirginiaOyewole Oyekoya, CUNY Hunter College Week One This week, in addition to peer bounding, a Hunter College tour, and an introduction to Paraview, I concentrated primarily on finalizing my research proposal. Dr. Wole and I were able to narrow down a project that will explore the possibility, feasibility, and effects of […]

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Lamya Serhir, CUNY Baruch College Project: Arab Data Bodies Project Mentors: Laila Shereen Sakr and Oyewole Oyekoya Week 1: The first week primarily consisted of meeting the other students, some of the mentors, and Professor Wole in addition to the project proposal. I read up on the research another student did last year for Arab […]

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Trinity Suma, Columbia University  Oyewole Oyekoya, CUNY Hunter College Week 1 I first met my REU cohort the Monday after I arrived in NYC, bonding over bumper-less bowling at Frames Bowling Lounge.  Our initial meeting was refreshing; I was excited to work with all of them and make new friends.  On Tuesday, my real work […]

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Samantha Vos, Virginia Wesleyan University Week 1   This week I developed my project proposal with Dr. Olorunseum Ogunwobi. We decided to develop a visualization of the cell lineage plasticity process using either VMD or Paraview. To do this, I will find either the same or extremely similar miRNA, mRNA, and oncogenes that Dr. Ogunwobi […]

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Project: The Community Game Development Toolkit – Creating easy-to-use tools in Unity to help students and artists tell their story and show their artwork in a game like format. Mentor:  Daniel Lichtman About Me: I’m CUNY BA student majoring in Game Design and Entrepreneurship at Hunter College. Week 1: Project Proposal and Toolkit Exploration This week, I had […]

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Richard Erem – University of Connecticut – Professor Margrethe Horlyck-Romanovsky Week One: Our VR-REU 2023 program commenced on Tuesday, May 30th, 2023, following a delightful bowling session on the prior day that served as an icebreaker for our team. After acquiring our temporary IDs at Hunter College, we enjoyed a comprehensive building tour before proceeding […]

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Filip Trzcinka – Hunter College Mentor: Daniel Chan Week 1: Before meeting with my mentor Daniel to narrow down what kind of project I would be working on, I decided to get ahead on my work and start on the Literature Review portion of my research paper. I wasn’t sure if I would be focusing […]

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Week 1 Since my project is building off an existing one, my main goal is to understand what has already been made, and what its limitations and capabilities are. This meant looking into the source code, so I can understand what features are made, testing the project to see how it runs, and building it […]

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Lisa Haye, CUNY John Jay College (Economics, B.S.) Mentors: Courtney Cogburn and Oyewole Oyekoya Week 1 The 2023 VR-REU commenced at the Framers Bowling Lounge as a Memorial Day icebreaker, where we all introduced ourselves to one another, as well as to Professor Wole’s research team. The following day, we convened at Hunter College where […]

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Sabrina Chow, Cornell University Week 1: Introduction and Project Proposal 🎳 The first few days in NYC for the REU started with an introduction to the rest of the cohort and the facilities. I went bowling with Dr. Wole and the other REU students, which was a lot of fun and very competitive. The next […]

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